Lil Boosie News

There are so many questions surrounding the 2013 XXL Freshman cover , but rather than speculate on why the hip-hop print staple made its picks, MTV News decided to go straight to the source and get the answers on the most talked-about hip-hop magazine cover of the year.

Young Thug has probably the most generic rap name imaginable; it's like a character that Finesse Mitchell would've played on a halfassed SNL skit in 2005.

The imprisoned Southern rap star shares the details of his time in a Louisiana jail, and what he'll do when he gets out Before you get to Isaac Franklin's former farmland, the two-lane road dead-ends. Coils of barbed wire slash the swollen Southern air.